Mike Downeshttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/?atom=atomWarwick Blogs, University of Warwick(C) 2018 Mike Downes2018-11-19T21:44:14ZAbout The Mike Downes Page by Mike DownesMike Downeshttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/entry/about_the_mike/2018-09-12T15:04:20Z2018-09-12T15:04:20Z<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;" class="tr-caption-container ">
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<p> <br />
I'm working on a new site called <a href="http://www.themikedownespage.com/" target="_blank">the mike downes page</a>, postes this in the About area, it reads..<br />
<br />
<b>From the very beginning</b> my YouTube channel has been called The Mike Downes Page. That was on 8 Oct 2010.<br />
</p>
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<p><br />
<br />
At this time of writing, today the 6 July 18, there are 953 public videos spread across around 150 playlists with 1 million views and 1.3 million watched minutes.<br />
<br />
At youtube.com/mikedownes you will see my name as the public custom URL, yet it's really called themikedownespage, just click and see the name hidden in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/themikedownespage/videos" target="_blank">this URL</a>.<br />
<br />
Although any youtube channel gives the channel some tabs like: Home, Videos, Playlists, Discussion and About, it's still quite limited to display what you need or talk about the videos that people are finding useful or even forgotten.<br />
<br />
Think of a channel as a library or a store - there are lots there yet if not presented nicely, it's very hard to locate what you are looking for - just image an internet without a Search Engine /o\<br />
<br />
Even more troublesome is how youtube will be watched across mobile, tablet, desktop and a big TV. For a mindful video creator, they need to think about matching what and how they make a video to how it will be watched (see below for some data).<br />
<br />
For me, I use two phrases:<br />
<br />
</p>
<ul>
<li>at the mike downes page we make videos to help people learn and </li>
<li>come visit and learn at the mike downes page</li>
</ul>
<p> <br />
</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9Sk3g9JcRHI/Wz95YbWrT-I/AAAAAAADPeA/zqNVg_Kbu843Ya3EnWY0ncUG8awDp0WSgCLcBGAs/s1600/world%2Bnews%2Bherald%2Bexample.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1001" data-original-width="817" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9Sk3g9JcRHI/Wz95YbWrT-I/AAAAAAADPeA/zqNVg_Kbu843Ya3EnWY0ncUG8awDp0WSgCLcBGAs/s320/world%2Bnews%2Bherald%2Bexample.jpg" width="261" /></a></div>
<p> <br />
To best understand it all, think of my channel and this site as one big page - I especially like how old newspapers look, see this one called the World News Herald - full of optimism and promise.<br />
<br />
There are loads of images of <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?newwindow=1&amp;hl=en-GB&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=700&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=1&amp;ei=t5I0W7DkHKvIgAapn6HAAg&amp;q=old+newspaper&amp;oq=old+newspaper&amp;gs_l=img.3..35i39k1l2j0l2j0i67k1j0j0i67k1j0l3.94707.96922.0.98311.13.13.0.0.0.0.163.1449.6j7.13.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.12.1289...0i8i30k1.0.OB8Q0qE__6Q#imgrc=_" target="_blank">old newspapers</a>. All of them look back to a day when reading the news and learning about the world was so innocent.<br />
<br />
For some reason on this theme I'm reminded of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_fair" target="_blank">World's Fair</a> in the era of the 1850s to early 1900s, 'World Expositions with technological inventions and advancements.<br />
<br />
Fast forward to 2018, and are we not seeing the same happening all over again with the smart phone and the wizardry it can achieve? Yet in my view, the average user has a magnificent phone, yet use it as little more than a thing to talk and text from - it's so much more, like a thousand times more than that.<br />
<br />
As a timeline, I started teaching in UK Schools September 1998, the same time as Google <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" target="_blank">was founded</a>. I saw the internet grow, and as I did, I taught it to seven to eleven year old children.<br />
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<p> For a look back then, read this news article from 2006 of me in a school classroom in Warwick, England. There was no internet in that classroom back then. I had to wheel in a large data projector on a trolley and attached it to a laptop preloaded anything I wished to teach.<br />
<br />
I spent twenty years in and around the UK Primary School Classroom. I started out in 1992 teaching black and white photography on Summer Camp in North Carolina, USA - an experience that has never left me. From there, qualified teacher status from the University of Warwick, and an honours degree.<br />
<br />
In April 2010, I started a blog called <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/" target="_blank">what's in kenilworth</a>. It was my attempt to document what was in this small Warwickshire town. I also commented on local changes and issues as they happened.<br />
<br />
There are now 1,031 published posts, although after the first few years, I started posting much wider issues like changes in social policing and topics on technology and video making.<br />
<br />
From early 2012, I was invited to test for Google Hangouts on prelease software. In the last six years I have tested lots of software while looking to brainstorm and innovate then feedback to Google and other companies.<br />
<br />
Getting back to youtube, many of my first videos were nothing more than mere video tests. That developed into making short videos to give people a few tips on how to solve a problem or learn a new skill on something they were finding difficult.<br />
<br />
An example is the <a href="https://youtu.be/xkpzHJGE4Dk" target="_blank">How to clean audio with audacity</a> - it's the most watched video at the mike downes page.<br />
<br />
Now youtube.com/mikedownes has passed one million views and growing all the time, I'd like to add more structure on how I make video to help people learn. I'm in progress right now creating this new site.<br />
<br />
All of my top videos are made by recording my screen either on android or windows desktop.<br />
<br />
One thing you will notice - I do not appear on camera. You and me are side by side looking at the lesson or the problem to be solved. I am not looking to entertain and get people to like me, if it's all going well I may throw in a smile or two.<br />
<br />
</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2PHRfqQObY0/Wz4nWp25hlI/AAAAAAADPb4/ArVETnGYv4I0NDdbFyIdHlrX9sX_dcRSgCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/the%2Bmike%2Bdownes%2Bpage%2Bwe%2Bmake%2Bbanner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2PHRfqQObY0/Wz4nWp25hlI/AAAAAAADPb4/ArVETnGYv4I0NDdbFyIdHlrX9sX_dcRSgCPcBGAYYCw/s320/the%2Bmike%2Bdownes%2Bpage%2Bwe%2Bmake%2Bbanner.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<p> <br />
I think that's why I have chosen this widescreen banner of the countryside - you and me standing shoulder to shoulder taking on the world. It's my photo by the way, taken with an android phone :)<br />
<br />
The priority for me is to make sure:<br />
<br />
</p>
<ul>
<li>the student will learn effectively in as short a time as possible yet leave nothing out</li>
<li>nothing gets in the way in the learning process</li>
<li>whatever I say is concise, clear and has a single meaning without any bias, hidden agenda or a double entendre</li>
</ul>
<p> <br />
<br />
To aid with the planning for myself and anyone else who is interested, let me share some back room data ...<br />
<br />
Every day around 1,500 people show up, watch 1.4 videos and leave. Thanks to youtube analytics and the new <a href="http://studio.youtube.com/" target="_blank">studio.youtube.com</a> I can track pretty much everything.<br />
<br />
I am located in England. I make a video, upload them to my YouTube account and have also been accepted on the YPP YouTube Partner Program.<br />
<br />
In what seems a few short minutes, my video is available all over the world - that's pretty incredible is it not?<br />
<br />
My videos are watched in most if not all countries. From my channel watch time in the last 28 days, we have this data:<br />
<br />
</p>
<ul>
<li>USA 29% (of that Computer 57%, Mobile Phone 34%, Tablet 7%)</li>
<li>India 17% (of that Mobile Phone 71%, Computer 26%, Tablet 1%)</li>
<li>UK 7% (of that Computer 56%, Mobile Phone 29%, Tablet 12%)</li>
</ul>
<p> <br />
My videos are watched worldwide on these devices:<br />
<br />
</p>
<ul>
<li>Computer 52% (low 26 - high 57%)</li>
<li>Mobile Phone 41% (low 29 - 71%)</li>
<li>Tablet 5%</li>
<li>TV 1%</li>
</ul>
<p> <br />
What you will notice is the extreme difference from the West to the East. Look how Mobile watch time in UK/USA is 29/34% compared to 71% in India. And how I can make a mobile portrait video and get complaints from those in the UK/USA, yet none from those in India/Pakistan.<br />
<br />
For gender, my channel has a Male 83%, Female 17% - my aim a balanced fifty fifty.<br />
<br />
I see the audience to my channel as intelligent people who have come along to learn something or solve a problem they are having.<br />
<br />
That is definitely reflected in the comments - usually specific questions from a video they have watched or a simple, yet heartfelt <i>thanks</i>.<br />
<br />
Mike Downes<br />
Friday 6 July 2018, 4:25pm ..<br />
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<p> <br />
I'm working on a new site called <a href="http://www.themikedownespage.com/" target="_blank">the mike downes page</a>, postes this in the About area, it reads..<br />
<br />
<b>From the very beginning</b> my YouTube channel has been called The Mike Downes Page. That was on 8 Oct 2010.<br />
</p>
<!--more-->
<p><br />
<br />
At this time of writing, today the 6 July 18, there are 953 public videos spread across around 150 playlists with 1 million views and 1.3 million watched minutes.<br />
<br />
At youtube.com/mikedownes you will see my name as the public custom URL, yet it's really called themikedownespage, just click and see the name hidden in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/themikedownespage/videos" target="_blank">this URL</a>.<br />
<br />
Although any youtube channel gives the channel some tabs like: Home, Videos, Playlists, Discussion and About, it's still quite limited to display what you need or talk about the videos that people are finding useful or even forgotten.<br />
<br />
Think of a channel as a library or a store - there are lots there yet if not presented nicely, it's very hard to locate what you are looking for - just image an internet without a Search Engine /o\<br />
<br />
Even more troublesome is how youtube will be watched across mobile, tablet, desktop and a big TV. For a mindful video creator, they need to think about matching what and how they make a video to how it will be watched (see below for some data).<br />
<br />
For me, I use two phrases:<br />
<br />
</p>
<ul>
<li>at the mike downes page we make videos to help people learn and </li>
<li>come visit and learn at the mike downes page</li>
</ul>
<p> <br />
</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9Sk3g9JcRHI/Wz95YbWrT-I/AAAAAAADPeA/zqNVg_Kbu843Ya3EnWY0ncUG8awDp0WSgCLcBGAs/s1600/world%2Bnews%2Bherald%2Bexample.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1001" data-original-width="817" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9Sk3g9JcRHI/Wz95YbWrT-I/AAAAAAADPeA/zqNVg_Kbu843Ya3EnWY0ncUG8awDp0WSgCLcBGAs/s320/world%2Bnews%2Bherald%2Bexample.jpg" width="261" /></a></div>
<p> <br />
To best understand it all, think of my channel and this site as one big page - I especially like how old newspapers look, see this one called the World News Herald - full of optimism and promise.<br />
<br />
There are loads of images of <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/search?newwindow=1&amp;hl=en-GB&amp;biw=1366&amp;bih=700&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=1&amp;ei=t5I0W7DkHKvIgAapn6HAAg&amp;q=old+newspaper&amp;oq=old+newspaper&amp;gs_l=img.3..35i39k1l2j0l2j0i67k1j0j0i67k1j0l3.94707.96922.0.98311.13.13.0.0.0.0.163.1449.6j7.13.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.12.1289...0i8i30k1.0.OB8Q0qE__6Q#imgrc=_" target="_blank">old newspapers</a>. All of them look back to a day when reading the news and learning about the world was so innocent.<br />
<br />
For some reason on this theme I'm reminded of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_fair" target="_blank">World's Fair</a> in the era of the 1850s to early 1900s, 'World Expositions with technological inventions and advancements.<br />
<br />
Fast forward to 2018, and are we not seeing the same happening all over again with the smart phone and the wizardry it can achieve? Yet in my view, the average user has a magnificent phone, yet use it as little more than a thing to talk and text from - it's so much more, like a thousand times more than that.<br />
<br />
As a timeline, I started teaching in UK Schools September 1998, the same time as Google <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google" target="_blank">was founded</a>. I saw the internet grow, and as I did, I taught it to seven to eleven year old children.<br />
<br />
</p>
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<td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mr Downes in the classroom, circa 2006</td>
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<p> For a look back then, read this news article from 2006 of me in a school classroom in Warwick, England. There was no internet in that classroom back then. I had to wheel in a large data projector on a trolley and attached it to a laptop preloaded anything I wished to teach.<br />
<br />
I spent twenty years in and around the UK Primary School Classroom. I started out in 1992 teaching black and white photography on Summer Camp in North Carolina, USA - an experience that has never left me. From there, qualified teacher status from the University of Warwick, and an honours degree.<br />
<br />
In April 2010, I started a blog called <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/" target="_blank">what's in kenilworth</a>. It was my attempt to document what was in this small Warwickshire town. I also commented on local changes and issues as they happened.<br />
<br />
There are now 1,031 published posts, although after the first few years, I started posting much wider issues like changes in social policing and topics on technology and video making.<br />
<br />
From early 2012, I was invited to test for Google Hangouts on prelease software. In the last six years I have tested lots of software while looking to brainstorm and innovate then feedback to Google and other companies.<br />
<br />
Getting back to youtube, many of my first videos were nothing more than mere video tests. That developed into making short videos to give people a few tips on how to solve a problem or learn a new skill on something they were finding difficult.<br />
<br />
An example is the <a href="https://youtu.be/xkpzHJGE4Dk" target="_blank">How to clean audio with audacity</a> - it's the most watched video at the mike downes page.<br />
<br />
Now youtube.com/mikedownes has passed one million views and growing all the time, I'd like to add more structure on how I make video to help people learn. I'm in progress right now creating this new site.<br />
<br />
All of my top videos are made by recording my screen either on android or windows desktop.<br />
<br />
One thing you will notice - I do not appear on camera. You and me are side by side looking at the lesson or the problem to be solved. I am not looking to entertain and get people to like me, if it's all going well I may throw in a smile or two.<br />
<br />
</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2PHRfqQObY0/Wz4nWp25hlI/AAAAAAADPb4/ArVETnGYv4I0NDdbFyIdHlrX9sX_dcRSgCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/the%2Bmike%2Bdownes%2Bpage%2Bwe%2Bmake%2Bbanner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="180" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2PHRfqQObY0/Wz4nWp25hlI/AAAAAAADPb4/ArVETnGYv4I0NDdbFyIdHlrX9sX_dcRSgCPcBGAYYCw/s320/the%2Bmike%2Bdownes%2Bpage%2Bwe%2Bmake%2Bbanner.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
<p> <br />
I think that's why I have chosen this widescreen banner of the countryside - you and me standing shoulder to shoulder taking on the world. It's my photo by the way, taken with an android phone :)<br />
<br />
The priority for me is to make sure:<br />
<br />
</p>
<ul>
<li>the student will learn effectively in as short a time as possible yet leave nothing out</li>
<li>nothing gets in the way in the learning process</li>
<li>whatever I say is concise, clear and has a single meaning without any bias, hidden agenda or a double entendre</li>
</ul>
<p> <br />
<br />
To aid with the planning for myself and anyone else who is interested, let me share some back room data ...<br />
<br />
Every day around 1,500 people show up, watch 1.4 videos and leave. Thanks to youtube analytics and the new <a href="http://studio.youtube.com/" target="_blank">studio.youtube.com</a> I can track pretty much everything.<br />
<br />
I am located in England. I make a video, upload them to my YouTube account and have also been accepted on the YPP YouTube Partner Program.<br />
<br />
In what seems a few short minutes, my video is available all over the world - that's pretty incredible is it not?<br />
<br />
My videos are watched in most if not all countries. From my channel watch time in the last 28 days, we have this data:<br />
<br />
</p>
<ul>
<li>USA 29% (of that Computer 57%, Mobile Phone 34%, Tablet 7%)</li>
<li>India 17% (of that Mobile Phone 71%, Computer 26%, Tablet 1%)</li>
<li>UK 7% (of that Computer 56%, Mobile Phone 29%, Tablet 12%)</li>
</ul>
<p> <br />
My videos are watched worldwide on these devices:<br />
<br />
</p>
<ul>
<li>Computer 52% (low 26 - high 57%)</li>
<li>Mobile Phone 41% (low 29 - 71%)</li>
<li>Tablet 5%</li>
<li>TV 1%</li>
</ul>
<p> <br />
What you will notice is the extreme difference from the West to the East. Look how Mobile watch time in UK/USA is 29/34% compared to 71% in India. And how I can make a mobile portrait video and get complaints from those in the UK/USA, yet none from those in India/Pakistan.<br />
<br />
For gender, my channel has a Male 83%, Female 17% - my aim a balanced fifty fifty.<br />
<br />
I see the audience to my channel as intelligent people who have come along to learn something or solve a problem they are having.<br />
<br />
That is definitely reflected in the comments - usually specific questions from a video they have watched or a simple, yet heartfelt <i>thanks</i>.<br />
<br />
Mike Downes<br />
Friday 6 July 2018, 4:25pm ..<br />
<br />
</p>
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</div>The Mike Downes Pagehttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/(C) 2018 Mike Downes2018-09-12T15:04:20Z0This blog has not moved .. by Mike DownesMike Downeshttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/entry/this_blog_has/2018-09-12T16:02:06Z2016-03-03T14:31:10Z<p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikedownes" title="Related external link: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikedownes">http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikedownes</a></p>
<p>Edit 12 Sep 18 - as this blog is called 'the mike downes page' and fits inline with the name of my youtube channel of the same name: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/themikedownespage">https://www.youtube.com/user/themikedownespage</a>- i WILL keep posting here...</p>
<p><strong>March 2016 update</strong> -- this blog has a new home and a new URL of: <a href="http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikedownes" target="_blank">http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikedownes</a>.. And yes I know I've not posted here in last few years .. full update at: <a href="http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikedownes/entry/the_laptop_show/" target="_blank">http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikedownes/entry/the_laptop_show</a>.. Many thanks, Mike</p><p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikedownes" title="Related external link: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikedownes">http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikedownes</a></p>
<p>Edit 12 Sep 18 - as this blog is called 'the mike downes page' and fits inline with the name of my youtube channel of the same name: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/themikedownespage">https://www.youtube.com/user/themikedownespage</a>- i WILL keep posting here...</p>
<p><strong>March 2016 update</strong> -- this blog has a new home and a new URL of: <a href="http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikedownes" target="_blank">http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikedownes</a>.. And yes I know I've not posted here in last few years .. full update at: <a href="http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikedownes/entry/the_laptop_show/" target="_blank">http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/mikedownes/entry/the_laptop_show</a>.. Many thanks, Mike</p>The Mike Downes Pagehttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/(C) 2018 Mike Downes2018-09-12T16:02:06Z0Google Plus has arrived byhttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/entry/google_plus_has/2011-09-02T20:22:23Z2011-09-02T20:22:23Z<p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="https://plus.google.com/113797508378819391794" title="Related external link: https://plus.google.com/113797508378819391794">https://plus.google.com/113797508378819391794</a></p>
<p>This blog was once my only one. In the last year or so, there have been many including <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/">whatsinKenilworth.com</a> and <a href="http://www.themikedownespage.com/">themikedownespage.com</a></p>
<p>Then one twitter account <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/wikenilworth">@wiKenilworth</a> and now another <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/infotelligentia">@infotelligentia</a></p>
<p>But since last month, Google Plus has arrived as the most exciting platform to beat them all.</p>
<p>Find me at: <a href="https://plus.google.com/113797508378819391794">+Mike Downes</a></p><p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="https://plus.google.com/113797508378819391794" title="Related external link: https://plus.google.com/113797508378819391794">https://plus.google.com/113797508378819391794</a></p>
<p>This blog was once my only one. In the last year or so, there have been many including <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/">whatsinKenilworth.com</a> and <a href="http://www.themikedownespage.com/">themikedownespage.com</a></p>
<p>Then one twitter account <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/wikenilworth">@wiKenilworth</a> and now another <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/infotelligentia">@infotelligentia</a></p>
<p>But since last month, Google Plus has arrived as the most exciting platform to beat them all.</p>
<p>Find me at: <a href="https://plus.google.com/113797508378819391794">+Mike Downes</a></p>The Mike Downes Pagehttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/(C) 20182011-09-02T20:22:23Z0New House Farm Pumpkin Cannon byhttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/entry/new_house_farm/2010-10-21T11:24:03Z2010-10-21T11:13:37Z<p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/10/new-house-farm-pumpkin-cannon-2010.html" title="Related external link: http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/10/new-house-farm-pumpkin-cannon-2010.html">http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/10/new-house-farm-pumpkin-cannon-2010.html</a></p>
<p>There <a href="../../../images/michaeldownes/2010/10/21/warwick_pumpkins_800.jpg?maxWidth=1024&amp;maxHeight=768" rel="lightbox" title="Warwick Pumpkins"><img style="float: left;" src="../../../images/michaeldownes/2010/10/21/warwick_pumpkins_800.jpg?maxWidth=200" alt="Warwick Pumpkins" border="0" /></a>are only two weekends left until Halloween - come and see the New House Farm Pumpkin Cannon in Hill Wootton, it's a tiny place near Leek Wootton just south of Kenilworth and off the A46.&nbsp; See the two YouTube videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLsI0MQ39D4">New House Farm</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uUjnJ3HDMs">The Pumpkin Cannon</a> It's a boom - not a bang, see <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/10/new-house-farm-pumpkin-cannon-2010.html">My Post</a></p>
<p>We are talking diesel generator supplying compressed to air some pretty high psi, then straw base with massive pumpkin shooting 300 metres in a field. More videos to come. The Pumpkin Carver will be at the Farm this weekend - fun for kids <a href="../../../images/michaeldownes/2010/10/21/dsc_1116.jpg?maxWidth=1024&amp;maxHeight=768" rel="lightbox" title="New House Farm Pumpkin Cannon"><img style="float: right;" src="../../../images/michaeldownes/2010/10/21/dsc_1116.jpg?maxWidth=200" alt="New House Farm Pumpkin Cannon" border="0" /></a>adults...and students&nbsp;</p>
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</p><p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/10/new-house-farm-pumpkin-cannon-2010.html" title="Related external link: http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/10/new-house-farm-pumpkin-cannon-2010.html">http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/10/new-house-farm-pumpkin-cannon-2010.html</a></p>
<p>There <a href="../../../images/michaeldownes/2010/10/21/warwick_pumpkins_800.jpg?maxWidth=1024&amp;maxHeight=768" rel="lightbox" title="Warwick Pumpkins"><img style="float: left;" src="../../../images/michaeldownes/2010/10/21/warwick_pumpkins_800.jpg?maxWidth=200" alt="Warwick Pumpkins" border="0" /></a>are only two weekends left until Halloween - come and see the New House Farm Pumpkin Cannon in Hill Wootton, it's a tiny place near Leek Wootton just south of Kenilworth and off the A46.&nbsp; See the two YouTube videos: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLsI0MQ39D4">New House Farm</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uUjnJ3HDMs">The Pumpkin Cannon</a> It's a boom - not a bang, see <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/10/new-house-farm-pumpkin-cannon-2010.html">My Post</a></p>
<p>We are talking diesel generator supplying compressed to air some pretty high psi, then straw base with massive pumpkin shooting 300 metres in a field. More videos to come. The Pumpkin Carver will be at the Farm this weekend - fun for kids <a href="../../../images/michaeldownes/2010/10/21/dsc_1116.jpg?maxWidth=1024&amp;maxHeight=768" rel="lightbox" title="New House Farm Pumpkin Cannon"><img style="float: right;" src="../../../images/michaeldownes/2010/10/21/dsc_1116.jpg?maxWidth=200" alt="New House Farm Pumpkin Cannon" border="0" /></a>adults...and students&nbsp;</p>
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</p>The Mike Downes Pagehttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/(C) 20182010-10-21T11:24:03Z0Kenilworth Weekly News byhttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/entry/kenilworth_weekly_news/2010-05-28T07:06:05Z2010-05-21T12:33:17Z<p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/05/kenilworth-weekly-news-in-warwick-road.html" title="Related external link: http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/05/kenilworth-weekly-news-in-warwick-road.html">http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/05/kenilworth-weekly-news-in-warwick-road.html</a></p>
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<p><span class="Apple-style-span">This post was originally made at <a href="http://www.whatiskenilworth.com">www.whatiskenilworth.com</a>, it is to date, the most visited page on that website - I wonder why? Read it here and make up your own mind. The post read in full:</span></p>
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<p><span class="Apple-style-span">(The KWN website has no relationship to the print copy edition. For example, headline as Fri 14 May 2010 reads 'Police target house burglars' - that is not found anywhere on the KWN website or with a detailed<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22police+target+house+burglars%22&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=">Google search</a>). What is also alarming is the KWN website has now introduced intensive advertising).</span></p>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">Sad times for a newspaper that was established in 1946. When you pay 50p for the newspaper on a Friday, there are very few pages of Kenilworth News (around five feature stories a week).</span> </p>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">Currently, the Kenilworth Weekly News sells an average of&nbsp;<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><a href="http://www.abc.org.uk/Certificates/16457452.pdf">3,533</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>copies per week (in a town population of 26,000 or so). That was 3,704 copies per week in August 2009 as reported by the<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><a href="http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=44209">Press Gazette</a>.</span> </p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"></span> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">Did you know that one paper copy of the KWN laid end to end is about 24 metres in length, by selling 3,533 copies a week the paper will stretch for 53 miles - what a waste of paper and not searchable, linkable and clickable either.&nbsp;</span> </p>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">Johnston Press have played down suggestions that their idea of a paywall (they were asking online readers to pay &pound;5.00 for 3 months access) for their online versions has failed, see<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8385342.stm">BBC News</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>and<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2010/apr/01/johnston-press-charging-for-content">The Guardian</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>once again. &nbsp;In my rough estimates from searching the web, KWN may get 16% of their revenue by selling the newspaper for 50p, the rest comes from advertising. But in these difficult times advertising spending is decreasing and Johnston Press are trying hard to cope with the threat of full digital editions and competition.</span> </p>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">This idea that a town newspaper (aka the KWN) is shrinking and may eventually close is one of the reasons I have made this website. And it does not stop there, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5309499/KWN_page9_kenonline060r.jpg">Official Kenilworth Town Website</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>is also under threat as it has never really been updated since it was first published (well over a year). If you missed that article<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5309499/KWN_page9_kenonline060r.jpg">click here.</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>Even then it caters for the large businesses but not the small ones who matter - they need the coverage most to survive.</span> </p>
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<p><span class="Apple-style-span">This post was originally made at <a href="http://www.whatiskenilworth.com">www.whatiskenilworth.com</a>, it is to date, the most visited page on that website - I wonder why? Read it here and make up your own mind. The post read in full:</span></p>
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<p><span class="Apple-style-span">(The KWN website has no relationship to the print copy edition. For example, headline as Fri 14 May 2010 reads 'Police target house burglars' - that is not found anywhere on the KWN website or with a detailed<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><a href="http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&amp;q=%22police+target+house+burglars%22&amp;aq=f&amp;aqi=&amp;aql=&amp;oq=&amp;gs_rfai=">Google search</a>). What is also alarming is the KWN website has now introduced intensive advertising).</span></p>
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<p><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></p>The Mike Downes Pagehttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/(C) 20182010-05-28T07:06:05Z0How did I make this Polaroid? If I can - anyone can. byhttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/entry/how_did_i/2010-04-19T08:13:03Z2010-04-19T08:13:04Z<p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="http://www.themikedownespage.com/" title="Related external link: http://www.themikedownespage.com/">http://www.themikedownespage.com/</a></p>
<p><img style="float: left;" src="/images/michaeldownes/2010/04/19/collages3-1.jpg?maxWidth=500" alt="How did I make this?" height="200" width="174" border="0" />I made this. see how I did it at <a href="http://www.themikedownespage.com/">The Mike Downes Page</a>. </p>
<p>Yes I know, for all you University Techies - it is really easy, but for those who want a fast way of creating reasonable graphics, then it's for you.</p>
<p>It's made with Google's Picasa in case you are wondering.<br />
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<p><img style="float: left;" src="/images/michaeldownes/2010/04/19/collages3-1.jpg?maxWidth=500" alt="How did I make this?" height="200" width="174" border="0" />I made this. see how I did it at <a href="http://www.themikedownespage.com/">The Mike Downes Page</a>. </p>
<p>Yes I know, for all you University Techies - it is really easy, but for those who want a fast way of creating reasonable graphics, then it's for you.</p>
<p>It's made with Google's Picasa in case you are wondering.<br />
</p>The Mike Downes Pagehttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/(C) 20182010-04-19T08:13:03Z0So who are the Election Candidates for Kenilworth? byhttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/entry/so_who_are/2010-07-13T11:21:05Z2010-04-19T08:04:08Z<p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com" title="Related external link: http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com">http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com</a></p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">This website is all about how we find digital stuff and if you cannot be found on Google then you do not exist. Sorry, but that's the way it is (see my other site <span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><em><a href="http://www.themikedownespage.com/">The Mike Downes Page </a></em><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>for all about the that). I've had personal email replies from two of the candidates (yes, I know you know who you are) and one of the top three - nothing. Shame really - I vote soon.&nbsp;So to the list then, we have (in alphabetical order): </span><span class="Apple-style-span">James Harrison, Nicholas Milton, John Moore, Nigel Rock and Jeremy Wright.</span> </p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span> <p><span class="Apple-style-span"><a imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_k2a-DE_Ped8/S8tjgdyyHZI/AAAAAAAAESU/zBMvqJAs1vc/s1600/green.JPG"><img border="0" width="200" height="51" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_k2a-DE_Ped8/S8tjgdyyHZI/AAAAAAAAESU/zBMvqJAs1vc/s200/green.JPG" /></a>I've been avoiding anything to do with the election at all. I noticed the BBC News website had a new ELECTION 2010 section and that made it even worse. There I was skipping TV channels last Thursday evening and thought I would give the debate five minutes.&nbsp;</span> </p>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">This website is all about how we find digital stuff and if you cannot be found on Google then you do not exist. Sorry, but that's the way it is (see my other site <span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><em><a href="http://www.themikedownespage.com/">The Mike Downes Page </a></em><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>for all about the that). I've had personal email replies from two of the candidates (yes, I know you know who you are) and one of the top three - nothing. Shame really - I vote soon.&nbsp;So to the list then, we have (in alphabetical order): </span><span class="Apple-style-span">James Harrison, Nicholas Milton, John Moore, Nigel Rock and Jeremy Wright.</span> </p>
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<p>Take a few photos of some Kenilworth Shops. Crop to rectangles. Use the Google Picasa Collage Tool. </p>
<p>Arrange like books on a shelf, then we have...effective for a webpage banner - let me know.</p>
<p><a title="What" rel="lightbox" href="www.whatsinkenilworth.com?maxWidth=1024&amp;maxHeight=768" spines="spines" book="book" front="front" shop="shop" kenilworth="kenilworth" in="in" s="s"></a><a title="Shop Fronts and made to look like book spines" rel="lightbox" href="/images/michaeldownes/2010/04/17/wik_spines_13apr10.jpg?maxWidth=1024&amp;maxHeight=768"><img alt="Shop Fronts and made to look like book spines" src="/images/michaeldownes/2010/04/17/wik_spines_13apr10.jpg?maxWidth=500" border="0" /></a><a title="Shop Fronts and made to look like book spines" rel="lightbox" href="/images/michaeldownes/2010/04/17/wik_spines_13apr10.jpg?maxWidth=1024&amp;maxHeight=768"></a></p><p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com" title="Related external link: http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com">http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com</a></p>
<p>Take a few photos of some Kenilworth Shops. Crop to rectangles. Use the Google Picasa Collage Tool. </p>
<p>Arrange like books on a shelf, then we have...effective for a webpage banner - let me know.</p>
<p><a title="What" rel="lightbox" href="www.whatsinkenilworth.com?maxWidth=1024&amp;maxHeight=768" spines="spines" book="book" front="front" shop="shop" kenilworth="kenilworth" in="in" s="s"></a><a title="Shop Fronts and made to look like book spines" rel="lightbox" href="/images/michaeldownes/2010/04/17/wik_spines_13apr10.jpg?maxWidth=1024&amp;maxHeight=768"><img alt="Shop Fronts and made to look like book spines" src="/images/michaeldownes/2010/04/17/wik_spines_13apr10.jpg?maxWidth=500" border="0" /></a><a title="Shop Fronts and made to look like book spines" rel="lightbox" href="/images/michaeldownes/2010/04/17/wik_spines_13apr10.jpg?maxWidth=1024&amp;maxHeight=768"></a></p>The Mike Downes Pagehttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/(C) 20182010-04-19T10:19:14Z0The Sonali Indian Take Away Kenilworth byhttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/entry/the_sonali_indian/2010-07-13T11:21:23Z2010-04-12T13:24:37Z<p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/04/sonali-authentic-indian-take-away.html" title="Related external link: http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/04/sonali-authentic-indian-take-away.html">http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/04/sonali-authentic-indian-take-away.html</a></p>
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<p>Sonali Indian Take Away<span id="goog_779169631"></span><span id="goog_779169632"></span><br />
33 Warwick Road<br />
Kenilworth, <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/whatsinkenilworth/WhatSInKenilworth#5385441259152657026">CV8 1HN</a><br />
tel 01926 857 733 or 01926 856300</p>
<p>Here is an example of a business possibly having a niche market. . The Sonali in Kenilworth does not have a website, however it does have an <a href="http://www.e-resistible.co.uk/indian-takeaway/kenilworth/sonali/orders/d0ca1bafaa50d780/order_items">online ordering facilty</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;I found this awkward as I could not browse the whole menu in one go, but had to navigate 20 sub menus (there is&nbsp;a search box though). Have you used it? I am told that many online orders come from the University of Warwick.</p>
<p>Compare this with the full menu at <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/">whatsinkenilworth.com</a>, click <a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B6dF7rWxc-5aNzk2ZTIyNDItNDZmYi00YTJjLThkNDMtM2RmNTJmNzI5ZTYw&amp;hl=en">here</a>for the direct link.</p><p class="answer">Writing about web page <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/04/sonali-authentic-indian-take-away.html" title="Related external link: http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/04/sonali-authentic-indian-take-away.html">http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/2010/04/sonali-authentic-indian-take-away.html</a></p>
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<p>Sonali Indian Take Away<span id="goog_779169631"></span><span id="goog_779169632"></span><br />
33 Warwick Road<br />
Kenilworth, <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/whatsinkenilworth/WhatSInKenilworth#5385441259152657026">CV8 1HN</a><br />
tel 01926 857 733 or 01926 856300</p>
<p>Here is an example of a business possibly having a niche market. . The Sonali in Kenilworth does not have a website, however it does have an <a href="http://www.e-resistible.co.uk/indian-takeaway/kenilworth/sonali/orders/d0ca1bafaa50d780/order_items">online ordering facilty</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;I found this awkward as I could not browse the whole menu in one go, but had to navigate 20 sub menus (there is&nbsp;a search box though). Have you used it? I am told that many online orders come from the University of Warwick.</p>
<p>Compare this with the full menu at <a href="http://www.whatsinkenilworth.com/">whatsinkenilworth.com</a>, click <a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B6dF7rWxc-5aNzk2ZTIyNDItNDZmYi00YTJjLThkNDMtM2RmNTJmNzI5ZTYw&amp;hl=en">here</a>for the direct link.</p>The Mike Downes Pagehttps://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/michaeldownes/(C) 20182010-07-13T11:21:23Z1